Posted by Tina
GDP for the first quarter this year was less than 1%, a miserable, hanging on by the fingernails, .5%. Obama is the first president to never see a single quarter of 3% growth and the next three quarters don’t have much of a “shot” at reaching 3%. Business investment is the lowest since the recession. Home ownership is the third lowest on record. The economy isn’t recovering and the people are suffering to the point of despair. The Obama economy is a BIG, BIG threat to the pursuit of happiness!
Maybe this ugly economic news, and more, is why a higher wall will be built around the White House:
“The current fence simply is not adequate for a modern era. We’ve said that before. It is becoming more and more acutely clear that that is in fact the case,” Secret Service official Tom Dougherty said in the briefing to federal officials.
“(The fence) is entirely scale-able, depending upon the circumstances. And we have now a society that tends to want to jump over the fence and onto the 18 acres,” Daugherty said in the briefing.
According to the Secret Service briefing, the agency’s plans would raise the current 6-foot-tall fence to 11 feet. A new concrete “footing” and “foundation” for the fence are also planned.
Secret Service and National Park Service plans for the new fence would also include “anti-climb features” to deter fence jumpers. Small spikes, which officials call “pencil points,” were added to the current fence in 2015 after a series of jumpers leapt the fence on to White House grounds.
The plans for the new White House fence would include 1¾-inch pickets and taller gates near entrances to the grounds.
Hmmmm…sounds like a familiar problem. I guess it’s smart, practical, and wise to secure the White House but the country can just go pound sand ’cause building a security wall to protect our nation would be “racist.”
No information was provided about the expense for this higher fence but I’m pretty sure that our near $20 trillion in debt makes this higher fence a bit of an extravagance. We should forget about that and focus on the fifteen to twenty jobs this project might temporarily generate…or something.